wontwa
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I've done a bunch of reading and haven't found the answer to this specifically so thought I'd post here. I recently purchased a non-working Ms. Pac cocktail - monitor glows, coin door and lights near joysticks light up, speaker hums but that's it. Reseated all of the chips, wiggled edge connector and nothing. I went ahead and purchased an Arcadeshop power switcher as that fixed my Galaga that had similar symptoms. After a lot of reading I realize that I could have probably just installed new fuse holders, but I don't really feel like going to the trouble of returning the switcher at this point.
There were no instructions included with the switcher, so these are the questions I have:
1) is there a preferred spot to connect the switcher to 115 (I did see info about this pretty extensively in a different thread but didn't really see a definitive answer)?
2) what exactly do I need to disconnect/desolder from the power block at the bottom of the cocktail in order to use the switcher (assuming that I have the switcher hooked into the 115 and connected to the board)? If anything?
3) as you can see in the pictures, it appears someone has done some hack job with what I think may be power to the board (basing this on the fact that the colors of red, orange and black are the same type the switcher uses). Should I de-solder this from the board and the harness and use some electrical tape to return the harness wiring to it's original state?
(I'm planning on putting the fuses back in, those happened to be removed at the time of photo)
Thanks for any help!!!!
There were no instructions included with the switcher, so these are the questions I have:
1) is there a preferred spot to connect the switcher to 115 (I did see info about this pretty extensively in a different thread but didn't really see a definitive answer)?
2) what exactly do I need to disconnect/desolder from the power block at the bottom of the cocktail in order to use the switcher (assuming that I have the switcher hooked into the 115 and connected to the board)? If anything?
3) as you can see in the pictures, it appears someone has done some hack job with what I think may be power to the board (basing this on the fact that the colors of red, orange and black are the same type the switcher uses). Should I de-solder this from the board and the harness and use some electrical tape to return the harness wiring to it's original state?
(I'm planning on putting the fuses back in, those happened to be removed at the time of photo)
Thanks for any help!!!!
